Contemporary constructions of the child : essays in honor of William Kessen

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Contemporary constructions of the child : essays in honor of William Kessen

edited by Frank S. Kessel, Marc H. Bornstein, Arnold J. Sameroff

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991

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Bibliography: p. 293-305

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume contains critical state-of-the-art essays on significant aspects of children's development and developmental inquiry. Among the topics examined: infant perception, action and social cognition; concept development and language; children's play; parent education; children with autism and Tourette's Syndrome; pediatrics and child development; and science, practice, and gender roles in early child psychology. A distinctive unifying theme arises from the contributors' discussions of substantive ideas in the context of their own impressive intellectual biographies. While providing a collective case-study in the recent history of ideas, the contributors honor the intellectual and personal influence of William Kessen.

Table of Contents

Contents: F.S. Kessel, Vision, Scholarship, and the Child: An Introduction to this Collection. Part I:Human Infancy. A.J. Sameroff, Learning and Motivation at Yale. M.M. Haith, Gratuity, Perception-Action Integration, and Future Orientation in Infant Vision. M.H. Bornstein, L. Mayes, Taking the Measure of Infant Mind. L.R. Sherrod, Studying Infants' Lives: Competency, Context and Variability. K.T. Young, What Parents and Experts Think About Infants. Part II:Thinking, Language, Self. K. Nelson, Concept Development in the Perspective of the Recent History of Developmental Psychology. M.L. Serafine, Thought and Sound in Music and Mind. K.E. Nelson, Varied Domains of Development: A Tale of LAD, MAD, SAD, DAD, and RARE and Surprising Events in Our RELMs. G.G. Fein, Bloodsuckers, Blisters, Cooked Babies, and Other Curiosities: Affective Themes in Pretense. D.J. Cohen, Finding Meaning in One's Self and Others: Clinical Studies of Children with Autism and Tourette's Syndrome. Part III:Practice and Policy, History and Theory. K.A. Clarke-Stewart, Developmental Psychology in the Real World: A Paradigm of Parent Education. M.E. Lamb, D.M. Teti, K.J. Sternberg, C.M. Malkin, Child Maltreatment and the Child Welfare System. N.W. Hall, Pediatrics and Child Development: A Parallel History. E.D. Cahan, Science, Practice, and Gender Roles in Early American Child Psychology. L.S. Siegel, On the Maturation of Developmental Psychology. D. Frye, The End of Development? G. Mandler, What Are You Going to Do When You Grow Up? A Personal Inquiry. W. Kessen, Nearing the End: A Lifetime of Being 17.

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  • NCID
    BA12896244
  • ISBN
    • 0805806075
  • LCCN
    90028629
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Hillsdale, N.J.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxvi, 323 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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